Benjamin Rolle, known to most of the poker world as Bencb, is one of the greatest online tournament players in the game today.

The 33-year-old German was a standout junior soccer player but turned to online poker after college and grinded his way to the highest stakes available. Originally an anonymous player, it wasn’t until the summer of 2019 that he revealed his identity.

He has won many millions during his career, most notably chopping the World Championship of Online Poker $100,000 Super High Roller with Fedor Holz for $1.2 million. He recently took down the Sunday High Roller on GGPoker for close to $400,000 and scooped a Super Millions title for $424,000.

Rolle started Raise Your Edge poker training and has shared his strategies with thousands of players worldwide. (You can get started with Raise Your Edge and save big with the promo codes CARDPLAYERAPP or CARDPLAYEREXP.)

The high-stakes crusher pens the occasional column for Card Player Magazine, and also streams his play on Twitch. When he’s not playing or teaching, he works with his champion Esports club Acend.

Card Player caught up with Rolle to discuss bluffing, specifically when to pull the trigger and when to wait for a better opportunity.

Craig Tapscott: How can players identify the best spots to be creative and initiate a bluff?

Benjamin Rolle: Bluffs do not need to be creative. They are part of the game. They are mandatory.

It is all about risk and reward. Risk a little for a decent reward. This often involves betting the flop as a bluff, potentially second barreling a lot on the turn, but being very selective on the river. Once people call the flop and turn, they are often too attached to their hand and won’t fold the river. This is the biggest difference between winning and losing players.

Winning players can let go of their hand regardless of whether or not they called the flop and turn. They are able to reevaluate the situation on the river. Losing players often believe, “I called flop and turn, so I have to call the river.” That’s a big trap and a very flawed thought process.

If you study with solvers, you will see a lot of hands are folded on the river depending on the sizing used by our opponent. The larger the bet in relation to pot size, the less we call; the smaller the bet, the more we can call as we get better odds.

When we are bluffing, if we have missed the flop and play versus the big blind it will almost always be profitable to throw in small continuation bets as bluffs. For example, 33 percent or 25 percent the pot size.

On the turn, we either want to bluff on a scary card or with immediate draws like an open-ended straight draw or flush draws. Here, even if we have a hand like AHeart Suit 2Heart Suit we would still continuation bet on a K-10-5 flop, as the Villain will have lots of missed hands and we want to protect our hand against something like 8-7 offsuit or Q-7 offsuit that are in Villain’s defense range.

With Q-J we have an easy second barrel on the turn as he will have a few under-pairs like pocket eights that will call against a small c-bet as well as the 10x which starts folding now. With open-ended straight draws or flush draws we don’t need a lot of fold equity. I usually bluff a lot on the flop and turn but bluff less on the river, even with good blockers, as I’ve explained.

Craig Tapscott: What are a few of the worst situations/spots to attempt a bluff and why?

Benjamin Rolle: The worst spots to bluff in are when your opponents have a lot of very strong hands in terms of their absolute hand strength, especially on boards where you can technically have full houses, flushes, and straights. For example, a final board such as 7-9-J-9-Q.

Often you see opponents snap calling with a hand like A-9 or 9-5 suited because they have trips which is in general a strong hand in hold’em but only in terms of its absolute hand strength. Of course, if Villain bets flop, checks turn, and bets river it becomes an easy call as he can value bet K-K or A-Q against our weaker Q-x or J-x.

But if he check-raises you on the flop, bets turn, and goes all in on the river, your 9-5 suited, K-9 suited, or A-9 suited doesn’t look so pretty anymore.

Less experienced players think “I have trips I must call.” This is a very dangerous train of thought. They are unable to think in relative hand strength and consider the prior action and board runout. Particularly in this situation where your opponent can have straights, maybe he was semi-bluffing and made a backdoor flush or he had a two-pair on the flop and made a full house. Overall, his range consists of a lot of hands that beat you and very few bluffs. This makes your trips a very bad hand.

That’s not how most people think. So here, if I play this line and get to the river, you can be certain I will have a straight, full house, or a flush and exploit the fact that people can’t lay down strong absolute hand strength.

At my stakes, playing $5,000 and $10,000 buy-ins online, I will sometimes have bluffs since they think on a similar level, and it is easier to run big bluffs. Certainly not on lower and mid-stakes, though.

Craig Tapscott: Some players are confused when it comes to bluff catching. What should they be looking for? And how do combos/blockers come into play when I am deciding whether to call?

Benjamin Rolle: The first thing I ask myself is, “Is it an easy spot to bluff?” This is also what I advised in a recent Twitter thread.

Easy spots to bluff are boards where a lot of draws have missed.

Let’s say the board runs out 9-8-4-2-4. Villain can have Q-J, J-10, Q-10, 7-6 suited, 6-5 suited, A-3 suited, or A-5 suited. A lot of potential bluffs making it easier to make a 9-x or 8-x hero call even against a triple barrel bluff.

Now let’s assume the board does not provide these “natural bluffs” with busted draws. A board like 10-10-5-2-2 is much harder to bluff. Here blockers come into play. Villain needs to be able to identify the hands which block Villain’s strong holdings and unblock Villain’s weak holdings.

You certainly don’t want to bluff with a 6, 7, or 9 in your hand since it blocks Villain’s folding range. This consists of 6-6 thru 9-9 as well as some weak ace-high flop and turn calls like A-9 suited or A-8 suited (not saying this would be a good call, but it can happen). A hand like Q-J or K-Q blocks some stronger 10-x that might have slow-played or some stronger overpairs that didn’t reraise preflop like J-J or Q-Q.

Without going into too much detail, you can see that this spot requires a deeper understanding of poker, especially blockers. Thus, it will be harder for people to find the right hands to bluff and pull the trigger.

To be honest, I think that the 10-10-5-2-2 board is not a great board to bluff in the first place since a lot of weaker opponents will just end up calling 8-8 type of hands since they don’t like to believe you have trips or even aces and they are too curious. So, it is always better to bluff in spots where opponents get to the river with ace or king-high flush draws or a lot of weak pairs with draws that have called the flop and turn and will fold the river.

But again, I primarily focus on betting a lot of flops and continuing the aggression on a lot of turns but then often not bluffing in big river pots on low and mid-stakes. Being able to understand this and sticking to it is perhaps not the most thrilling style of play, but definitely the more profitable approach if you’re looking to take poker more seriously.

Craig Tapscott: How does bluffing change at final tables?

Benjamin Rolle: It changes a lot, but in both ways. Meaning, when you are the bigger stack, you will find more often spots that are supposed to be bluffed more aggressively since your opponent is supposed to fold a lot more.

And here is the catch, “supposed.” The language I’m using is essential. There is a huge difference between what people are supposed to do and what they will do. Even if you find spots where Villain is supposed to fold a lot, it doesn’t mean he will. And this can cost you a lot of money.

A prime example is you defending as a big stack from the big blind against a mid-stack (30-big blind effective stacks) and the board comes 6-6-5 and you intend to check-raise bluff and bet turn and put him all in on the river or even donk lead, bet turn and go all in on the river. Now, this is a terrible board for someone open raising from early or middle position. Given his mid-stack position and the short stacks present on the final table, he needs to be careful, and check his entire range. He doesn’t have a single hand that wants to play for stacks.

Even A-A wants to play a maximum of two streets for value. In a chip EV (chEV) scenario, we bet flop, bet turn, and go all in the river. Or even go broke on the flop against potential 8-8/9-9 or draws. Not saying it is a dream spot in chEV situations, but it’s more reasonable to play for stacks than in ICM situations on final tables.

Also, given the huge nut advantage for the big stack having all sorts of 6-x combos like 7-6 offsuit, 10-6 suited, J-6 suited etc., he will have a leading (donking) range since he must take the initiative and can dictate the size of the pot. Now, since he has more trips than the mid-stack, he can have plenty of bluffs.

Despite the big blind having a lot of bluffs, the mid-stack needs to start folding overpairs on later streets in case the big blind puts him all in. Well, that’s not really the case, especially for less experienced players. Their thought process looks like the following. “I have an overpair, I am top of my range, I have to call.” So you will get very few folds.

You can follow a GTO approach and have a lot of bluffs or play exploitatively, understand how humans, especially weaker and less experienced players approach these spots, have very few bluffs, get massive payouts when having trips and not punting your stack off just because theory tells you to bluff in these spots.

Against a strong opponent who understands ICM and these board dynamics as well as nut and range advantage, it might be better to have more bluffs in these spots.

Also, another big factor under ICM are the bet sizings. In chEV (early and midgame of tournaments), we want to use a lot of pot-size bets and overbets on the river.

In ICM we more often use 33 percent, 50 percent, and 66 percent bets, given that we have to be more careful with our chips. So often, you will apply already a lot of pressure betting two-thirds pot which might be half your opponent’s stack since the ICM pressure will come on top of it. You force your opponents into tough situations by using these smaller sizings, especially in situations when ranges are really wide, such as small blind versus big blind or late position (button, cutoff, hijack) versus the blinds.

The final table is all about using your chips wisely and also choosing your opponents wisely. Betting 25 percent pot might apply a lot of pressure against a 10-big blind stack, but no pressure at all against a 50-big blind stack. Keep that in mind. ♠

Jason Koon has officially been crowned the champion of High Stakes Duel 3. The 37-year-old poker pro unseated 16-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, who had an incredible 9-1 winning record when the pair squared off for the unique heads-up poker series from PokerGO. Koon defeated Hellmuth in a $1,600,000 match but was not yet able to walk away with his winnings. The rules of the show dictated that in order to be declared the latest HSD champion, Koon would either need to win again in the $3,200,000 round or have no challengers step up within a 30-day window after Hellmuth declined to rematch against him.

In the end, it turned out that nobody was willing to post $1,600,000 million to play Koon knowing they would then need to not only win that match but also have to win the next round (with a whopping $6,400,000 on the line) or have nobody challenge them in the allotted time span.

Koon seemed to anticipate a lack of challengers. After his win over Hellmuth, he told PokerGO reporters, “My preparation for this match was not only Phil-specific but it was also – I assumed it was going to go two ways… One, there’s going to be some very rich recreational player who wants a sweat, which is great. Or there’s going to be some super alpha person who comes from Russia or somewhere who wants to play me, but I doubt it. I just can’t really see anyone that will play me. I’m not trying to be arrogant, it’s just that it’s a lot of money to move for a one-percent or two-percent edge that you’re going to have at most against me, but my preparation was to be ready to play an optimal player. I did not play an optimal strategy today. I played a very Phil-specific strategy. But if I play another player, I will be ready to play them if they play the way that a solver would play.”

With no challenger, Koon became the first player not named Hellmuth to secure the wrestling-style HSD championship belt. Koon may have only had to play one match, but his victory in early December over Hellmuth came at the highest stakes yet played on the show, and against an opponent who had won High Stakes Duel 1 and 2 with clean sweeps of living legends of the game Antonio Esfandiari and Daniel Negreanu.

high Stakes Duel 3 began with another win for Hellmuth, this time over sports commentator Nick Wright. Wright opted not to rematch for round 2, and high-stakes cash game regular Tom Dwan stepped in to hand Hellmuth his first loss in round 2, ending his incredible winning streak at 7 consecutive rounds. Hellmuth availed himself of a rematch and came out on top, setting up an $800,000 showdown with Scott Seiver, who stepped in for Dwan. Hellmuth came out on top, setting up the $1.6 match that was ultimately contested against Koon. Had Hellmuth won that match, he could have chosen to walk away as a three-time HSD winner.

Koon’s battle against Hellmuth lasted around 2.5 hours, with the challenger taking the lead relatively early thanks to a mistimed five-bet bluff from Hellmuth. As it turned out, he had chosen to make this move when Koon held the best starting hand in hold’em: pocket aces.
Koon was able to extend his lead fairly consistently after winning that big preflop confrontation and eventually closed out the match when his Q-8 outran the A-K of a short-stacked Hellmuth.

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The first seven-figure poker tournament payday of 2023 has been awarded. Bin Weng defeated a field of 1,142 entries in The Return Championship $5,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em event on Jan. 8 at The Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ. The Philadelphia resident earned a career-high $1,000,000 payday for the victory.

With this marquee victory under his belt, Weng now has more than $2.9 million in recorded tournament scores. This title run also saw Weng awarded 1,920 Card Player Player of the Year points. As a result, he has taken an early lead in the 2023 POY race, which is sponsored by Global Poker.

This event featured two starting flights and three more days of action. The first starting flight saw 562 entries, with another 580 entries on day 1B. The solid turnout saw the $3 million guarantee easily surpassed, with $5,538,700 in prize money ultimately paid out among the top 110 finishers.

Big names that ran deep included World Series of Poker bracelet winner Joey Weissman (85th), bracelet winner Mike Jukich (52nd), bracelet winner Jesse Lonis (48th), bracelet winner and recent WPT World Championship final tablist Frank Funaro (46th), three-time bracelet winner Dan Zack (44th), and Mukul Pahuja (14th). The final day began with eight players remaining and 2015 WSOP main event champion Joe McKeehen in the lead and Weng in the middle of the pack. An early preflop coin flip saw Weng’s A-Q outrun the pocket eights of recent The Return mystery bounty event winner Sam Laskowitz (8th – $144,006). Weng found himself in a similar situation soon after that, with A-Q dueling the pocket hacks of Christopher Ng (7th – $193,855). Weng flopped an ace and held from there to narrow the field to six.

McKeehen added some distance between himself and Weng when his pocket jacks held up against the pocket tens of Lanny Vaysman. McKeehen ended up with jacks full to send Vaysman packing in sixth place ($246,472).

Two-time bracelet winner Justin Saliba’s run in this event concluded in fifth place when he ran A-Q into the pocket aces of McKeehen. Saliba earned $304,629, the second-largest score of his career. He now has more than $2.5 million in recorded earnings.

Weng added to his stack in a major way when he flopped two pair with 6-4 offsuit facing an overpair of pocket kings for Jonathan Borenstein. The chips got in on the flop and Borenstein was unable to improve, earning $368,324 as the fourth-place finisher.

A key preflop coin flip dramatically altered the leaderboard early in three-handed action. Weng raised from the button and then four-bet jammed over McKeehen’s small blind three-bet with AHeart SuitKHeart Suit. McKeehen called with JDiamond SuitJClub Suit. The board ran out ASpade SuitADiamond Suit9Diamond Suit7Heart Suit4Heart Suit and Weng made trips to win the pot and take a commanding lead.

McKeehen’s stack took another his when his pocket kings were cracked by the pocket jacks of Sundiata Devore. He soon found himself all-in and at risk with A-J leading Devore’s A-5, but a five on the river sent the three-time bracelet winner home with $440,327 for his third-place showing.

With that, heads-up play began with Weng leading and Devore not too far behind. On a break the final two hashed out a deal that redistributed the remaining prize money, with the runner-up securing $926,128 and $1,000,000 going to the champion.

The final hand saw Weng raise from the button and call when Devore three-bet shoved. Weng held AClub SuitKDiamond Suit, which had Devore’s ADiamond SuitQHeart Suit dominated. The board came down KClub Suit7Diamond Suit4Club SuitASpade Suit3Spade Suit to lock up the pot and the title for Weng. Devore earned the payout he negotiated for as the runner-up, which was by far the biggest payday yet on his tournament resume.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

The $1,600 buy-in Card Player Poker Tour main event, part of the Deep Stack Extravaganza series at The Venetian on the Las Vegas Strip, attracted a field of 560 entries. The turnout helped the prize pool easily top the $500,000 guarantee, coming in at $798,000.

The greatest piece of that prize pool went to Reno, Nevada’s Alan Mastic, who banked a personal-best $131,746.

“It was just steady playing,” the 69-year-old said. “I got lucky one time at the final table, and it went well from there.”

The computer programmer has actually been playing poker for the last 25 years. This was the 2nd Venetian title for Mastic in the last week. On New Year’s Eve, he defeated 95 players in the $400 buy-in MonsterStack event to make $9,546.

Mastic’s previous best score came in the 2022 World Series of Poker main event when he finished 200th for $53,900.

In order to claim the title, he had to overcome a tough final table that featured accomplished tournament player Khoa Nguyen (8th), three-time bracelet winner Kristen Foxen (7th), WSOP.com Player of the Year Mike Holtz (5th), recent Poker Hall of Fame nominee Kathy Liebert (4th), and WPT champion and bracelet winner Jared Jaffee (3rd).

It was another deep run for Liebert, who has been on a tear recently. This summer she final tabled the WSOP senior’s event, banking $186,541 for fifth place and in November she won a WSOP Circuit ring online. She cashed four times at the WPT World Championship, including a fifth-place finish in the Ladies Championship.

Foxen, nee Bicknell, had a good chance at the win but had her pocket aces cracked by Jaffee’s A-10. It was Jaffee’s second big suckout, having also beaten pocket kings with K-Q to bust Adam Walton in 13th place.

Jaffee’s good fortune finally ran out after running a dominated ace into Mastic during three-handed play.

With that, Mastic took a 4:3 chip lead over Marquis Waters to start heads-up play. After Waters asked for a chop, however, the two decided to pause the clock.

After breaking down the chip stacks and running the numbers, the two agreed to end the tournament with a deal. Waters took home $128,500, with Mastic signing for $131,746.

Final Table Results

A total amount of 108 entrances were made on day 1A of the $500,000 ensured Card Player Online poker Scenic tour event at The Venetian, which belongs to the recurring DeepStack Extravaganza online poker festival on the Las Vegas Strip.

The $1,600 buy-in competition includes three starting flights in overall, with 12.5% of the area making the money. That meant that 14 players would certainly advance to day 2, ensured at least a min-cash for surviving the first beginning day.

Each gamer started the event with 40,000 heaps, as well as blind levels were set to 40 minutes. Additionally, those who signed up before the begin of degree 2 were provided a price cut on their competition charges. Gamers can rebuy, nonetheless, till the beginning of degree 13.

Craig Mason, that took second in the partypoker LIVE Caribbean main event for $1.2 million, was chip leader for the majority of the day before hemorrhaging some chips away in the later levels. Mason got a significant boost towards completion of the evening nonetheless when his A-J held versus Sean Banahan’s Q-J on a jack-high flop.

It had not been long after that Thomas Coolidge located himself done in and in jeopardy of bubbling with 8-7 versus the A-6 of Mark Koeln. Coolidge discovered no assistance, and was gotten rid of simply one area timid of the cash.

Mason finished with the largest pile in general, nabbing up 590,000 He was followed by WSOP Circuit champion David Richards (575,000), WSOP arm band champion Ralph Perry (522,000), Koeln (511,000), as well as bracelet victor and WPT champion Dylan Linde (455,000). Other notables still in contention include Venetian casino poker standout and also previous Card Gamer of the Year Eric Baldwin and also WPT champ Jordan Cristos.

Tournament play proceeds Friday at 11:10 a.m. with day 1B. Once again, players that go into prior to degree 2 will get a refund on their tournament rake.

Those who want to win their seat at a discount can do so with a 7:10 p.m. $200 huge satellite on Friday night. There will additionally be a $200 turbo satellite on Saturday early morning.

Right here are the chip counts for day 1A.

Craig Mason– 590,000.
David Richards– 575,000
Ralph Perry– 522,000
Mark Koeln– 511,000
Dylan Linde– 455,000
Adam Walton– 455,000
Jared Strauss– 340,000
Eric Baldwin– 308,000
Simon Taberham– 152,000
Jordan Cristos– 108,000
Hye Park– 98,000
Peter Mugar– 89,000
Ronnie Anderson– 66,000
Jeff Tanouye– 59,000

The 2022 Mid-States Texas Hold’em Trip Venetian, which was the final large-field no-limit hold ’em tournament for Texas hold’em, concluded on December 30th with Jacob Perry emerging as the champion after a heads-up deal. Jacob Perry won the title and $99,084 in cash prize after outlasting a field of 643 total entries in the $1,100 buy-in tournament. This victory marks his biggest cash advance yet, bringing his total career earnings to over $470,000.

The tournament took place over three days, with only 71 players advancing to day 2 out of the 643 cumulative entries from both starting flights. Notable players who made deep runs include Joao Simao, Barry Shulman, Jeremy Ausmus, Shannon Shorr, and Ryan Laplante, among others.

At the nine-handed final table, Ezequiel Waigel, the 2021 Card Player Texas hold’em Scenic tour Venetian main event winner, was in the lead. The final table saw some quick eliminations, with Peter Mullin, Tamas Lendvai, Richard Alati, and Kenny Huynh all falling in quick succession. Angela Jordison, who made her eighth final-table appearance of the year, was eliminated in fifth place.

Waigel was eventually eliminated in third place after losing a big hand to Abhisek Panda. Panda and Perry then entered into a heads-up battle, with Perry eventually winning the title after making a flush in a big pot. The two players then agreed to a deal, with Perry securing the championship and $99,084 while Panda took home $97,612 as the runner-up.

MSPT Venetian Main Event Final Table Results

Chad Eveslage backed up his breakout 2021 campaign on the live tournament circuit with an even better showing in 2022. In addition to winning his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet as the champion of the $25,000 no-limit hold’em eight max event this summer, Eveslage had another standout season on the World Poker Tour. The 31-year-old poker pro from Indiana secured four cashes, with two final-table finishes and one title won. He cashed for $1,450,825 across those four scores, securing the 2022 WPT Player of the Year honors in the process.

Eveslage’s big win came back in October at the Bellagio. He topped a field of 569 entries in the $10,4000 buy-in WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic no-limit hold’em main event to secure his second WPT title and the top prize of $1,042,300. This was the second-largest payday of Eveslage’s career, behind only the $1.4 million along with his bracelet.

Eveslage’s heads-up opponent in that tournament, Steve ‘Cuz’ Buckner, made Eveslage sweat the POY honors down the final stretch. In the last WPT main tour event of the season, the record-breaking WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, Eveslage was knocked out before the bubble burst. At that point, he held just a 175-point lead over Buckner, who cashed in five main tour events this year and made two final tables. Buckner made the money but ultimately finished in 319th place for $18,450 and 125 points, leaving him 50 points shy of pulling even with Eveslage. Buckner, who also finished as the runner-up in the WPT Choctaw main event, cashed for $1,056,950 this season.

Eveslage’s other final table finish this season came in the penultimate event, the WPT Seminole Rock’N’Roll Poker Open. He finished third from a field of 1,541 entries in that tournament to earn $390,000 and 850 WPT POY points.

His two other cashes this season were a 79th-place showing in the 2022 WPT Venetian main event, the tournament he won in 2021, and a 239th-place finish in the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open.

Eveslage now has nearly $7.4 million in career tournament earnings, with more than $2.6 million coming from WPT main tour cashes.

Here is a look at the final top ten in the WPT POY standings:

Eveslage became the 20th player to secure the WPT’s POY honors, as there has never been a repeat winner. Below is a look back at the POY victors of the past two decades:

Photo credits: Joe Giron / World Poker Tour.

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The PokerGO Trip was first presented in 2021. The high-stakes-focused tour was a rousing success in its first run and also still handled excellent growth in its 2nd year. The 2022 PGT period featured 175 occasions, with 24,998 total entries made and also greater than $426 million in prize money granted along the road. This period concluded with the first-ever running of the PGT Champion, a $500,000 winner-take-all freeroll.

The event saw the top 21 from the final PGT welcomed to take part in the final showdown. An additional distinct wrinkle for this occasion saw the beginning chip heaps identified by the certifying gamers’ last PGT factor overalls. As an example, top-ranked Stephen Chidwick’s 3,412 points saw him begin with 342,000, while Benny Glaser, that certified thanks to his runner-up surface in the WPT World Champion just a day before this event, started with 165,000 thanks to 1,646 points. A complete listing of the last PGT leaderboard for 2022 can be located on the tour’s website.

After two days of action, Jason Koon arised victorious, capturing the prize and the top prize of half a million bucks. The 37-year-old poker pro now has greater than $41.9 million in life time event incomes to his name, putting him 7th on Card Player’s all-time cash listing.

This win came just a couple of weeks after Koon defeated all-time Globe Collection of Texas hold’em arm band leader Phil Hellmuth in the largest High Risks Duel match yet, with $1.6 million on the line.

“It’s always beautiful. I somehow run hot towards the end of the year. Do you remember the WPT at Bellagio when they had those two 25Ks and I won them back-to-back in late December? I just kind of run hot in December,” Koon told PGT reporters. “I don’t know if it’s Christmas time or what, but it’s beautiful.”

Koon entered into the PGT Champion with the third-largest stack thanks to an additional solid year on the online money player circuit. Koon paid 18 times in PGT events, with 3 titles won and also more than $6.7 million in qualified profits accrued along the road. This $500,000 win was his fourth-largest cash money of the year. His leading cash advance in 2022 came when he took down the EUR150,000 buy-in brief deck occasion at the Triton Series Madrid event for $1,837,500. That success saw Koon link the document for the most Triton titles, signing up with Mikita Badziakouski with 4 success on the high-stakes tour.

Koon may have begun this occasion in third area, but he completed day 1 as the clear chip leader with almost 57 percent of the total chips in play and also just 6 competitors remaining.

“Almost every time, unless it’s a total dream, you come into a final table and you have all the chips but at some point, generally three-handed, stacks are going to converge and change hands, and you almost always lose the chip lead,” said Koon. “That’s why when I was hearing people say, ‘It’s your tourney to lose,’ I said, ‘Guys, I’ve got 57 percent of the chips and there are six people here and it’s the best players in the world. This is not my tourney to lose. I’m going to win it maybe half the time or whatever.’ I just embraced it, and then looked up and there was basically 100 big blinds in play three-handed. I knew that I’m not the chip leader, so I’ll just do what I can do and go from there. I took some beats and then I made some hands, and there I was.”

Globe Texas Hold’em Tour Player of the Year Chad Eveslage was the very first to fall on day 2, with his tumbled flush facing a higher tumbled flush for Koon. 2022 PGT Gamer of the Year Stephen Chidwick soon followed when his K-10 was unable to defeat the Q-8 of Koon. Chidwick shoved 4 big blinds from the cutoff. Koon called from the big blind, tumbled 2 set, and also held from there to tighten the area to 4.

Glaser’s run wrapped up when his K-Q matched was not able ahead from behind versus the A-4 suited of Sean Winter season Glaser flopped a gutshot straight draw, however Wintertime’s leading set held with the river to see him get in three-handed activity with the second-largest stack.

Koon and also Winter months clashed numerous times during the following stretch of play, with Wintertime primarily coming out on top. Koon after that slid to third location briefly after his AHeart SuitKHeart Suit was defeated by the ASpade Suit3Heart Match of two-time bracelet winner Nick Petrangelo in a preflop all-in.

Koon quickly managed to move back right into 2nd area with his trip threes besting the queens and also 3s of Petrangelo. A preflop coin flip then established heads-up, with Wintertime’s pocket sixes besting the K-10 of Petrangelo.

The last showdown, with the title and $500,000 hanging in the balance, began with Winter holding 2,035,000 to Koon’s 1,185,000. Both took place to battle for nearly two hours. Relatively early, Koon doubled up with a turned 2 pair besting the tumbled leading set of Winter months. His river shove was phoned call to see him take much better than a 3:1 chip lead.

Winter fought completely back into the lead, but his last time on the top was temporary. Koon won a huge pot with aces full besting the busted nut flush draw of Winter, that called the river with king high to go with the two set aboard.

By the time the final hand was dealt, Koon’s lead had actually grown to more than 6:1. Koon raised sufficient on the button to put Winter season all-in. Winter months called with JHeart Suit8Club Match as well as was controling the 10Diamond Suit8Spade Fit of Koon, however a 10Club Suit6Club Suit5Spade Suit3Diamond Suit3Club Suit runout gave Koon 10s and 3s for the win.

Wintertime, who had 20 PGT money and also 3 titles won in 2022, was sent out home empty-handed in this winner-take-all tournament.

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